And now it's all this

And now it's all this

Dr. Drang

I just said what I said and it was wrong or was taken wrong

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My favorite Apple accessory

I meant to write this last week, shortly after I finished listening to Episode 612 of Upgrade. But things didn’t work out the way I hoped, so now I’m rushing to finish these few...

Krugman, Taylor, and Maclaurin

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] In this morning’s blog/newsletter,1...

Keyboard Maestro launchers

During my seven-week Spotlight trial, I was reminded of how easy it is to make file and folder launchers in Keyboard Maestro. In case you’ve also forgotten, here’s a short post...

Launchers and me

I started using launchers shortly after returning to the Mac (from Linux) in 2005. The first one I used was the great Quicksilver. I’m sure I learned about it from Merlin Mann,...

Easter in Mathematica

Yesterday’s post included some behind-the-scenes calculations that I figured were worth talking about. They were all done in Mathematica, and here’s the notebook I used: The...

Scientific American’s Easter

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] In its continuing attempt to teach...

A less complicated complication

Back in January, I complained about the Apple Watch’s Timer complication being too complicated. A couple of days ago, Dan Moren told me on Mastodon that my complaint had been...

Are you a mod or a rocker?

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve been working my way slowly...

Saving us from ourselves?

You may have seen this article by Joe Rossignol in MacRumors yesterday. It’s about a new feature in macOS 26.4 that’s designed to keep us from pasting dangerous commands in...

Hardware vs. software

I’ve been thinking about the new Apple Studio Display lately, mainly in the context of Jason Snell’s review of it on Six Colors and his further discussion with Myke Hurley on...

A leap year inequality

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I’ve been working my way through the...

Scientific American and Friday the 13th

Scientific American has a fun little article today about the frequency of Friday the 13ths. It ends with this table, and this true but overstated conclusion: In other words, the...

Port ability

I read Jason Snell’s review of the MacBook Neo this morning and was struck by this section on its two USB-C ports: So Apple has done the work to put two USB-C ports on the...

Lent and Lisp

After writing last week’s post about the start of Ramadan and Chinese New Year, I expected to hear from people asking why I didn’t include the further coincidence of Ash...

My OmniGraffle ticks

[Equations in this post may not look right (or appear at all) in your RSS reader. Go to the original article to see them rendered properly.] I thought some of you might be...
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